The Vienna stela of Meryre

Abstract

The fragmentary stela of Meryre, presently in Vienna (no. 5814), is one of very few objects known from this Eighteenth Dynasty individual. This article presents two partial sketches of the stela found in a collection of the sketches and rubbings of the nineteenth-century traveller Paul Durand which is presently in Montreal. One allows us partially to reconstruct the missing fragment of the stela, and records of dates in the collection permit some educated guesses about the early modern history of the stela.